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You mean a pair of tweezers and a match? I hope you find some good answers to your question because I'm confused why a special product is needed. I give credit to the marketing guy behind that. "I made cheaper tweezers out of plastic. How can I charge twice as much for them and have people buy them instead of the metal ones?" Answer: "Name them Tick Removal Plyers!" I didn't come into this thread with the intention to make fun of the product you found. I was actually hoping this post was about The Tick.

It could be the property owner did give permission for the cache. Then the CO should indicate as such in the cache description. Without meaning any offense to anyone involved, here's some devil's advocate... I've indicated my house cache was at MY house on the cache page and still received logs that said, "cache was in someone's backyard so we left." so obviously writing something on the cache page doesn't guarantee people will read it or feel comfortable with the situation. Since there are Reviewers who volunteer to make sure cache submissions meet the guidelines, we assume it meets the guidelines. That's not always the case but I'll wager that the caches that are approved while being in violation are in a minority. Concerns about the cache location should've been messaged to the cache owner and the cachers should've left the grounds if they felt uncomfortable instead of both of them pursuing to find the cache and then complaining in the find log about the circumstances under which they, as adults, put themselves.

Jewelweed vendors like to cite an old 1958 study that found jewelweed effective in treating poison ivy. What they don't tell you is that this study has been discredited by later studies. Don't waste your money on commercial jewelweed preparations, and don't waste your time finding it and picking it. What 1958 study? "Jewelweed vendors"? I know it works from putting it on my skin, putting it on my kids' skin, my husband using it, my friends using it, my in-laws using it. My step-daughter has sensitive skin with eczema so the jewelweed oil is the only thing that gives her relief without causing side effects. I guess it's because we all bought into that 1958 study that I never knew about. Thank goodness the internet was here once again to tell me why I was thinking things and what to think instead. I can't argue with "later studies"!

Also keep some jewelweed oil or soap made with jewelweed oil at home. It will reduce itching from bug bites and allergic plants without applying synthetic chemicals.

What a mess. Good luck to Groundspeak in their efforts to sort it out and deal with this and all other conflicts! It really hurts the game when people are petty and disrespectful. I don't see the point in the nastiness. I put up with some bad behavior in a game once and finally stopped playing the game. I realized that I'm an adult and I really don't have time for the nonsense. I can easily recommend the same to others.

Here is the bigger question does L.E. ask the owners/managers if there is supposed to be something there. No, they don't, which is why it doesn't matter if you get tenuous permission. The bottom line is that a parking lot is for public use so it is okay to place a cache in a parking lot until it is forbidden by a posted sign or government ordinance... not too much unlike skateboarding or cruising in this regard. So a Geocacher has as much right to hide a 35mm film canister in a lamp post skirt in the Walmart parking lot as a paranoid individual, concerned citizen or a spiteful cacher has a right to report that 35mm film canister as a suspicious parcel. There will always be people who support cache containers being blown up, regardless of how they were placed or why... it's a nasty element to the game. Cache owners accept the risk of the cache being detonated just the same as we accept the risks of an animal chewing on the cache, weather soaking the cache, people muggling the cache, or maggots destroying the cache. You've got to focus on the parts of the game you enjoy and understand that sometimes stuff happens.

The DNFs seems very basic to me. I'm confused why they were deleted. Weird. The Find log... well... the CO could have emailed you, yes. Before recommendations can be given about what should happen to the cache, it should be determined by the appropriate people if the cache is actually in violation of the rules by being in that location. After all "private" might mean "owned by the cache owner" and "suspicious activity" might mean "illegal dumping". The forum might be jumping the gun on judgment here. I hope a resolution is found soon. It hurts the game when people get petty and disrespectful.

I have a history of four, two still active. Permission was received for three. One from the church that cared for the place, the two others were managed by the county, the fourth is owned by me. I've waymarked the heck out of those four places as well. Everyone compliments the area and the history. These are important places. None of the caches are located by resting places, except for the one that I owned... but that's now archived. More history nerds in my area have hid them in other cemeteries, also important places that I assume are also receiving compliments from the cachers who seek out the caches there. FL is a cemetery caching friendly state barring you get permission from the caretakers of the property and obey all local laws and property rules. Generally speaking, no night caching or dogs. Edit to Add: But none of them are referred to by that goofy name you referred to above. It sounds like a really bad paranormal show.

If your info beneath your avatar is correct, you're in the city of Washington, Illinois. The first thing I'd do is contact Geocachers in your area to learn what they know. If you're the first Geocacher in Washington, IL then you'll want to go to the city website. The city website has a Municipal Code tab on the left menu. Click that. On that screen, select Parks & Recreation. It will give you a page detailing what the city expects and who to speak to. It does not name Geocaching and the description given for generally restricted activities doesn't fit what Geocaching is. If you're looking at a County park... which I believe would be Tazewell County if Wikipedia is right, then you'll want to go to their website. There's not a lot of information on their website so I'd start by contacting the Community Development department at 309/477-2235. Chances are high that they've not heard or considered Geocaching and the activity can fly under the radar, as it once did, for a long time to come.

It's incredible how much impact forbidding the use of GPSr at historic locations can be for games, tourism wanting to use GPS devices, and local governments forming GIS programs. By this legislation, all Waymarking of historical places would be prohibited in South Carolina. This would be the quintessential cutting of one's nose to spite one's face.

I'm guessing here, but I know that ambulance personnel will not enter a building where a violent crime has occurred until law enforcement clears it first. It's possible that although an ambulance has been called to the scene that the firefighters are also called due to the potential risks involved. While a firefighter may be crossed trained to serve as an EMT, I doubt a lot of EMTs are crossed trained as firefighters. Everything GeoBain said, plus an ambulance/rescue has a crew of 2, maybe 3. That engine is carrying 4. If you have more than one injury, more hands may be needed to handle the situation. Dispatchers will always send responders with the consideration for safety, not the price tag that municipality pays for the call. I think that if the government is going to splurge on anything, it really ought to be the emergency response. I don't know what model your department's engines are but I've seen some engines move very well on and off road. If a municipality has a fire department and an EMS department that they wish to merge, they will cross-train the personnel of both departments in the other's certification. So EMTs can become FF/EMTs if the local government wills it to be so. The EMTs that never had any intention of carrying 50ft ladders around 500degree fires would seek work elsewhere at that point.

Yeah, obviously the breaker should fix it. I've broken and fixed a cache before. I've also broken something on a cache site that I thought would be the cache and wasn't (oops!) and fixed that. I had to go back with tools to do it. One time I found a broken cache and it wasn't an easy fix so I told the owner and the owner replied back that it wasn't broken when they checked on it two days prior. Uhm... okay... well, it was when I found it so go check again. *shrug.

The new standard for emergency response is that firefighters are cross-trained/certified as Emergency Medical Technicians [EMT] or Paramedics. Some departments require an additional certification in trauma counseling. This is why a fire department vehicle will respond to a call that is not a fire. Fire Departments often have ambulance type vehicles that can transport people to emergency medical centers. This is not an overreaction, it's response. Did you know that firefighters can deliver babies, too? You'd thinking running into towering infernos would be enough, but gone are the days when firefighters responded only to fires and cats stuck in trees. A lot of firefighters will work in emergency rooms or drive for private ambulance companies on their days off to earn extra money and they are qualified to do so because of their medical certifications. While LEOs have enormous training for many scenarios, you don't dispatch them to respond to medical emergencies to administer emergency medical care. That's just not what they are here to do.

Calling in a 4x4 going off-road is the single stupidest thing I've ever heard. Education would go a long way to helping prevent waste of time, money and resources but at some point, you just can't fix stupid.

This thread got way off track, didn't it? A bomb squad followed their bomb squad procedure to neutralize an unknown parcel in a public area. That unknown parcel just happened to be a piece of a game we like to play and we know that it was harmless. Where the heck does civil liberties and George Orwell come into that? Neither the 35mm container nor the camo duct tape it was wrapped with have any rights in our society. This is not symbolic of the state of our nation or demonstrative of any mindset. It was a thing left out in public and law enforcement blew it up. Anaheim emergency responders just had some more experience applying their skills and training in a situation where, thankfully, no harm came to anyone.

All the FTF Hounds are thinking of creative ways to subconsciously program their fellow cachers to think like this. Yes... stay home... avoid FTF... That aside, I live in FL. I'm more worried about poisonous snakes, hungry bobcats, angry wild hogs, poisonous spiders, fire ants, killer bees, and cranky squirrels than I am a potential bomb. I suppose this line of thinking is a positive tick for cemetery caches. The muggles located there aren't likely to call in a bomb scare and it's highly unlikely anyone would place a bomb there. What would they do? Kill everyone again?

Terrorists don't plant IEDs in 35mm film canisters under lamp skirts in the remote sections of Walmart parking lots where nobody would get hurt except a lone geocacher at an unpredictable time. A terrorist would strap explosives to their torso and enter the store at a high traffic time. Or drive a vehicle loaded with explosives into the store. Or otherwise go where the people are so there would be damage and, you know, terror. There is method to the madness. If a bomb is disguised as a geocache, that's an attack meant to malign the game, not to instill fear into the general population. While there's always a risk some sicko may try to malign the game at all costs and I always support law enforcement following protocol for the safety of everyone, I'd really prefer people think before they call the police with a bomb scare.

I've had experience where I've climbed up in a tree several times using a step-ladder and carrying tools to maintain and adjust a micro cache, which yielded absolutely no suspicion from people passing by in a high traffic area. It seems like the most suspicion is roused when a non-geocacher spots a geocacher trying to go unnoticed and be discreet. Is the new Stealth to be obvious? Heck, you can probably do anything you want with an orange vest, hard helmet and a clipboard.

Sometimes law enforcement knows it was a geocache when they blow it up. In one case, a LEO opened a Groundspeak account just to post a NM log to the cache page. Following protocol they blew it up. In that particular case both the cache and the red herring (which law enforcement also got) were labeled appropriately. Generally, people need to think before they call in a bomb scare. For example, if an IED was placed in the lamp skirt of the far corner of the Walmart in Podunk Town, will it accomplish what IEDs are meant to accomplish? Is a 35mm canister, especially with camo tape that was ironically placed in a location where it blended better without the tape, the container of choice for an IED? Unfortunately, people are so paranoid that they don't think.

Yeah, that category seems pretty sparse. Heck, this topic alone has about twice the number of pictured locations Unfortunately, I get the feeling that the coordinates to the caches near the trees in this topic are probably not that of the tree themselves (or maybe they are for some of 'em, who knows), so I'm guessing one can't just copy over the data from geocaching to Waymarking. Since I wrote the Omnivorous Trees category on Waymarking, I probably should put in a couple words in this thread... The category is "sparse" because it's just a few months old. Categories grow as people post waymarks to them. One of the waymarks in that category has already made it as a Featured Waymark for the site and appears periodically on the main page as an example to newcomers of what Waymarking is about. Omnivorous Trees are not always easy to find. I have not found one to post a waymark for, yet, and I wrote the category! Waymarking does not conflict with Geocaching. We've had some great new additions to the category recently and I encourage others to post waymarks to this category, as well. Omnivorous Trees

I wouldn't recommend Shaklee because of the cost, but they do make a wipe version of their Basic H cleaning agent, which is difficult to find from people who specialize in making bar and liquid soaps. So if cost isn't a factor, they're alright. I'm not going to dive into this issue too much but I'll say that "organic" is a very flexible word for some companies and it's always wise to check the ingredients if being organic is important. If it's not important, then it wouldn't matter.

see, now, you asked for practical advice and you ended up giving it. i'll keep this in mind, thank you. You're welcome! I'm happy when I can give an answer to solve someone's problem now.

Well gosh, Vinny, that's helpful! But I could just use this Artesian well. So... let me get this straight: You came here and begged us repeatedly to give you product ideas for your business, and yet you have turned my suggestion into a JOKE? Sorry... I had mistakenly believed that your request was sincere, and that you were seriously looking for product suggestions for natural skincare products for geocachers. Now that I know that you are an idle dilletante who was simply trolling for the fun of it, I will refrain from sharing further product suggestions. Awww, I'm sorry, Vinny. I should know better than to link to Waymarking here.

This is an actual intentional design by most commercial companies because people associate CLEAN with lather. So the more elements and preservatives that they toss in to build up the lather, the more people will psychologically feel that the soap works... and they'll buy it again. You can get soap that will rinse easily right now and it doesn't have to be cacher-specific. What you're looking for is pure olive oil soap, or castile. Sometimes coconut oil is tossed in to add lather. If you want it completely without lather so the water isn't making MORE bubbles when you're trying to rinse it off, go with the 100% olive oil soap. TONS of people make it and it should be available from your local Natural Food store! I hope this helps!